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South Dallas Business and Professional Women’s Club, Inc. inducts 10 new members

By Gwendolyn H. Daniels The historic South Dallas Business and Professional Women’s Club, Inc. (SDBPWC, Inc.) held its annual New Member Induction Ceremony on November 9, 2024. A total of ten new members were inducted. In an effort to continue except...

NAREB’s 2024 State Of Housing In Black America report reveals an urgent state of emergency for Black homeownership

ATLANTA, GA – The National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) State of Housing in Black America (SHIBA) report reveals a troubling environment for bolstering Black homeownership in the U.S. The two best-performing demographics for African Ame...

NDG Book Review: ‘Growing Up Urkel’ brings back a very familiar face

By Terri Schlichenmeyer At some point in the next few weeks, somebody’s going to bring up That Story. You know the one: That Story happened fifteen or twenty years ago, when you were a kid and did something dumb that became a hilarious tale for an el...

Film Review: ‘Piece by Piece’ is a LEGO lover’s musical jam session

By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic (***) “It might seem crazy what I’m about to say.” But this fun-to-watch bio/mus/doc should’ve been titled Happy, and not Piece by Piece. That’s the vibe. That’s the depth. Certainly, Pharrell Williams is worthy of a...

Embracing Home Visits: Honoring parents and strengthening communities

By Miriam Westheimer The transition to parenthood is far from easy – and even more difficult if parents don’t have support. Studies show that less than half of parents feel prepared for parenthood before the birth of their first baby, and only 18% fe...

While Neo-Nazis march in Ohio, Morning Joe hosts rekindle ties with Trump

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Senior National Correspondent MSNBC’s Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week, rekindling a relationship strained for several years. While they defended the meeting as...

Maryland mother says student attempted to hang her 7-year-old son in a school bathroom

A disturbing incident at C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School in Charles County, Maryland, has sparked community outrage and conflicting accounts. Initially described as horseplay, the situation involved a 7-year-old student whose jacket became caught...

America’s healing can start with family around the holidays

With the holiday season approaching, it seems that our country could not be more divided. That division has been perhaps the main overarching topic of our national conversation in recent years. And it has taken root within many of our own families. B...

People in the News: Dana Frank

Dana Frank’s new book, “Get Up and Get On It!” A Black Entrepreneur’s Lessons on Creating Legacy, offers a rich, detailed look into her family’s journey of building generational wealth and overcoming adversity. The book highlights Frank’s father, Ger...

Black housing in America reveals urgent state of Black homeownership

By Michael K. FrisbyMike@frisbyassociates.comATLANTA, GA – The National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) 2024 State of Housing in Black America (SHIBA) report reveals a troubling environment for bolstering Black homeownership in the U.S. Th...

People’s Plan NYC: Mayor Adams Is “Once Again Demonstrating A Failure To Prioritize The Needs Of New Yorkers”

By Zara Nasir\The People’s Plan NYC Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia CommonsToday, Mayor Eric Adams released his November 2024 budget update, once again demonstrating a failure to prioritize the needs of New Yorkers over years of his administrat...

The people have spoken, are we clear about the direction chosen?

This has been an erratic election cycle. At times insane. Other times nonsensical. The campaign rhetoric was ratchet. The platform ominous.Yet here we are. The nation, saturated by four years of disinformation, has chosen a new direction. It is our h...

The repercussions of Donald Trump’s re-election

By A. Scott BoldenFormer Chair of the DC Democratic Party and a NewsNation political contributor“Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they have done.”In a stunning turn of events, America has once again found its neck under Donald Trump’s foo...

VP Records: Reggae Legend King Jammy’s Unites The World With Dub

By VP Records Photos: VP Records\YouTube Screenshots So much trouble in the world….Elder Reggae statesman King Jammy returns to his Dub laboratory to forge a new sonic message of positive vibrations in Dub. Jammy’s hand-picked peacekeeping for...

Safer Communities Grant program awards more than $1M to area nonprofits

In a torrent of violent crime that makes it difficult to keep count, one of the latest incidents involved a shooting at Central High School on Monday afternoon. A teenage suspect now faces attempted murder charges in the incident. And as always, the...